{"id":20265,"date":"2022-11-02T11:49:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=20265"},"modified":"2022-11-02T17:50:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T21:50:59","slug":"furman-included-in-the-princeton-reviews-guide-to-green-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-included-in-the-princeton-reviews-guide-to-green-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman included in The Princeton Review&#8217;s Guide to Green Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University is one of the nation\u2019s most environmentally responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review, which has featured the university in The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2023 Edition.<\/p>\n<p>The Princeton Review, an educational services company, chose the 455 schools in the guide based on its survey of administrators at 713 colleges in 2021-22 about their institutions\u2019 commitments to the environment and sustainability. The Princeton Review analyzed 25 data points to calculate schools\u2019 Green Ratings. Colleges that earned a Green Rating score of 80 or higher were chosen for the Guide to Green Colleges. Furman earned a score of 90 on a scale of 60 to 99.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20270\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20270\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20270 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/10\/laura-bain-400.jpg\" alt=\"whate woman wearing red shirt, Laura Bain\" width=\"400\" height=\"285\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/285;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Bain, associate director of sustainability assessment.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cFurman students engage in a wide variety of sustainability research and co-curricular activities, including working at the on-campus, organic-practice Furman Farm,\u201d according to The Princeton Review\u2019s profile of Furman. \u201cFurman was a charter signatory to the American College and University Presidents\u2019 Climate Commitment, and the Board of Trustees approved a sustainability master plan for the university, setting a goal of carbon neutrality by 2026,\u201d it added. The guide also mentioned Furman as the home of the first LEED-certified building in South Carolina, Hipp Hall. Furman now has a total of eight LEED-certified buildings on its 800-acre campus.<\/p>\n<p>Furman\u2019s profile includes metrics such as the university\u2019s condensed work week option for employees, indoor and secure bike storage, shower facilities and lockers for bicycle commuters and a public greenhouse gas inventory plan. The guide notes that 12 percent of Furman&#8217;s food budget is spent on local or organic food.<\/p>\n<p>Furman has appeared in The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges every year since the inaugural 2010 edition, which was published in 2009, for a total of 13 editions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur inclusion in Princeton Review\u2019s Guide to Green Colleges is a testament to Furman\u2019s longstanding commitment to sustainability across our curriculum, operations, and campus and community engagement,\u201d said Laura Bain &#8217;02, associate director of sustainability assessment at The Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities. \u201cWe are proud of our accomplishments to date, and forever strive to improve our sustainability performance, initiatives and opportunities for our students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman is named among 455 schools that have earned a qualifying &#8220;Green Rating.&#8221; More than 700 colleges were evaluated on 25 sustainability data points for inclusion in the annual guide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":20266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[1654,232],"class_list":["post-20265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities","tag-green-colleges","tag-princeton-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}